News from FEMA about the White Paper on Transport FEMA – The Federation of European Motorcyclists’ Associations reports that the European Parliament’s Transport Committee ‘stresses that motorcycles play a significant role in sustainable mobility, especially in urban areas where they contribute to tackling congestion and parking problems’. Back in March we reported on the E.U. […]
FIM Europe for Road Safety
Road Safety on top of the agenda The FIM (Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme) Europe’s – John Chatterton-Ross, Director of Public Affairs, was recently interviewed by RACC – the Royal Automobile Club of Catalunya on the themes of Road Safety. FIM Europe comments that since its foundation, “the themes of road incidentality, of industry responses and […]
Event Data Recorder Devices
A research study regarding Event Data Recorders (EDRs) just published by Directorate General For Internal Policies and requested by the European Parliament’s Committee (MEPs) on Transport and Tourism (TRAN) has the intention to inform the European parliamentary debate on the topic. The study looks at the contribution that EDRs could make to EU road safety […]
Driverless Cars Competition
At Right To Ride we are not adverse to technology and like to keep abreast with on-going developments in the motorcycle and transport world. ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) have been developed more and more and the concept of driverless cars has been mooted for years. However this form of transport has come one step closer […]
EU Motorcyclists Forum
The Federation of European Motorcyclists Associations has released a press release about the European Motorcyclists Forum, taking place on 5th and 6th March 2014. Is the Forum on ITS as FEMA claims, a logical step towards better integration of motorcycling in European transport policies? Do riders really want to accept Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) to […]
RIDERSCAN – 3rd Survey
RIDERSCAN launches new survey on Intelligent Transport Systems and Motorcycling Safety FEMA (Federation of European Motorcyclists Associations) have launched the 3rd and last survey, which targets European motorcyclists through their involvement in the European Commission co-funded RIDERSCAN project. Partners to the project with FEMA, apart from the European Commission, are ACEM (motorcycle industry representatives in […]
ITS Wired World
Our colleagues from the Motorcycle Riders Foundation representing riders’ rights in the USA have put out a fascinating press release that can turn the whole ITS argument on its head. They argue that if we have to have companies using “Telematics” to monitor the vehicles – bring it on. They say “Fighting the technology is […]